Micro-Unit Buildings, Coming To A Harlem Lot Near You (video)

November 14, 2015

micro home.jpgSomething is happening in New York City, last month, we wrote about Micro Apartments Are On There Way To Harlem, and it was only a few weeks ago that nArchitects unveiled a video (below) showing off the units at the firm’s micro-units at 335 East 27th Street, better known as the My Micro NY building.

Here’s the video:

But this week, curious onlookers got a better look at the building: New York magazine’s Wendy Goodman took a tour of the prefabricated structure’s model unit, a 302-square-foot studio. Granted, it’s no 90-square-foot apartment, but it is impressive how much can fit into one of the downsized spaces—the view of the kitchen above, for example, shows a table (by Resource Furniture) that also functions as a desk, but doesn’t overwhelm the apartment in either configuration.

Cameron Blaylock and Mekko Harjo.jpg

The designers at nArchitects employed other tricks to create the illusion of more space:

  • The ceilings, for example, are nearly ten feet high
  • There are floor-to-ceiling windows in all of the units
  • The walls have built-in storage space, and
  • A Resource Furniture wall bed is used to create more of a footprint.

“What is surprising is how big it all feels,” nArchitects principal Eric Bunge said. “Everyone goes into this with certain references in their minds, and I think that this is the bombshell that explodes a lot of those references.”

Can this work in Harlem?

Photo credit: 1) by Cameron Blaylock and Mekko Harjo for New York Magazine. 2) by Cameron Blaylock and Mekko Harjo for New York Magazine.


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